Jones Holiday Packs 2006

Dessert Pack


The good. Flavors (click to see nutritional information): Cherry Pie, Banana Cream Pie, Key Lime Pie, Apple Pie, Blueberry Pie.


Holiday Pack

The Dinner. Flavors (click to see nutritional information): Turkey and Gravy soda, Sweet Potato Soda, Dinner Roll Soda, Pea Soda, Antacid Flavored Soda

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The movie I saw today ...

Happy Feet

Happy. Music. Animated.

Preview: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The movie I saw today ...

Casino Royale

Action. Flashback. Fresh start.

Preview: Spider-Man 3

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Jedi Squirrels

My New York Trip

To start out, I want to say blisters are something you do not want to get on a vacation where you walk most of the time.

Day 1 (my first full day) Friday
- I went to Madame Tussauds of New York.
- Better Burger with Kate before meeting up with Chad at the Comedy Club.
- That night me, Chad nad Kate went to Gotham Comedy Club. Some funny stuff.

Day 2 - Saturday
- Museum of the City of New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Day 3 - Sunday
- Monty Python's Spamalot at Sam S. Shubert Theatre
“We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spam a lot.” The Knights of the Round Table come to Broadway to search for the Holy Grail.
- Dinner at Churrascaria Plataforma
The meat cutters are the Bruce Lee of skewering. One by one they parade around at your table, skewer in hand, with a variety of meat.

If that is not enough, Plataforma will grace you with the surprise of the day; a whole salmon, and even an entire roasted suckling pig makes its round about the dining room on a cart to be carved at your table side.

Day 4 - Monday
- Guggenhei Museum, was having a exterior restoration and did not have a main exhibition. With little to see there we went other places.
- We hit a few of the local stores in the area, first one being the Apple Store off of 5th Ave. Its a big glass cube. You go into the front of the cube, I took the stairs down to a huge store space with every Apple product.
- Next was the Disney Store also off of 5th Ave. Four floors of Disney products with great displays.
- Last was food at Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Large sandwichs.

Day 5 - Tuesday
- The Cloisters
The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the 12th through the 15th centuries. The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there.

Day 6 - Wednesday
Did some shoping: Toys R Us, Virgin Megastore, and other stores.
And finished the night with dinner at Dallas BBQ.

Check out my trip pictures.

Dodge Trucks Exposed

Daughter of the Sun

From a e-mail I got today:

"I know that you enjoy reading, but sometimes it is just too darn hard to find the time to curl up with your favorite book. I am sure that many of your friends are the same way. A lot of people will not even read much any more because of these hectic schedules we lead.

What if I told you that you can now listen to my novel, Daughter of the Sun? And it wouldn't cost you a dime? Interested?

I launched the podcast version of my novel tonight. But what is a podcast? Basically, with the podcast, a new chapter will be released every week until the novel is finished up. It is just a simple .mp3 file that you download to your computer and listen while you work. You can throw it on an mp3 player, like the iPod, iRiver, or any others, and listen while you work out, or do chores. You do not even have to download it. You can listen right from my webpage. Right here:

http://www.lonnieezell.com/writing/daughter-of-the-sun-chapter-1/

That will take you right to the first chapter.

... Lonnie Ezell"

Try the audio podcast, the book was great.

Tank Paintball Battles

http://www.funday.com/step3.aspx?PathCode=all&sel=FDAYTB

My idea.

Here is my idea:

Going to try something new this next calendar and I need your help.

With the below link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathbar/sets/72157594284785113/

This has about ten pictures in it currently (more to added as time goes on) and I need some info on the pictures, funny thoughts on the picture(s) or just something funny about the picture.

Maybe a Thought Bubble or a Speach Balloon added to the picture?

Like found at this link: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php

Or maybe a Motivational Poster?

Like found at this link: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Try them out. Add you suggestions on on the above flickr account, email them to me, send me a completed item or do all the above.

I got my first response from the above email I sent out:

Hello uncle Heath. For a couple of them I think you should add a thought bubble/speach bubble and I really think their good for the caleneder. The one that caught my eye was the one were someone was pointing at someone and they were covoring their head in the grass. I think that was really funny and it should be have something like one guy crying not to get shot and the other saying something that would be funny for the moment.

from

Benjamin

The month of moving and packing.

Before

After

This month so far I have to pack up my desk three time so far. Once they lowered the desks (see the before and after), next they put new carpet in and the best of all the move down one floor to a total new desk. Today I did do a little overtime in the morning to unpack and set up the new desk. Took awhile, but things are up to par.

Wacky news

1. British University Offering Masters Degree In Robin Hood Studies

Nottingham University is offering a masters degree in Robin Hood studies to provide students an "exciting opportunity on the origins and development of England's most enduring legendary figure."

2. A permanent birthday reminder for mom...

A Welsh mom who kept forgetting her five kids' birthdays has had the dates tattooed on her arm.

3. Couple arrested trying to get sample for drug test

An eastern Kentucky couple is charged with going to an elementary school and trying to get a urine specimen from a nephew to use in a drug test.

The Birthday Month

I got the last birthday present today and the count is as follows:

1) Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon
I have started playing this game and I got a good ways thru it the last 2 days being sich and resting..

2) The Gamers (Dead Gentlemen Productions)
I have watched it twice so far, once the normaly and once with the commentary.

3) Bomberman (PSP)
A great classic game, I have played this off and on sence I got the game.

4) Animusic 2 DVD
This is what I got today, I watched part of it at my parents and they wanted to borrow it. I told them they had to wait till I got to watch it.

Pokémon Mystery of Mew Giveaway!

Want to add Mew to your Pokémon collection? Visit any Toys "R" Us on September 30th from noon to 3pm and Mew can be yours! <see full article>

Being a pokemon fan, I went to the local Toys "R" Us at about 12:30 thinking there would not be too long of a line. I ws wrong, I took me about a hour and a half to wait for the download. I did not mind the wait, not feeling too good, I did not plan on the wait (ie I did not bring my mp3 player).

One thing I did on my birthday . . .

I went to get my Driver License renewed. I get a number and waited for a time. I looked up and saw the sign "Cash or Check". I had little cash, most places take the plastic. I lost my place while I got some cash. I got back, took a number and waited longer. Once I got up to the window, it was fast. Updated some info and then waited a few mins to take a new picture.

Waiting was not too bad, with a mp3 player and a cell phone that plays games.

fd's Flickr Toys

Found a good tool for Flickr user (and other like it). I most cases you need a picture that is online (a Browse... button is offered some time to get the picture off your computer).

fd's Flickr Toys

There are a few ones that I might have a use for:

Create a personalized CD/DVD cover - I could use it on that DVD project I have been meaning to finish.
Framer: Add a customized frame to your digital photographs - There are some nice frames that could be used, I do like the stamp options.

... to name a few.

Geotagging

Flickr recently introduced geotagging to their website, check out the pictures that I have placed. My three main areas I have done are Seattle, Houston and New York area.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathbar/map/

My first game convention.

My first game convention was at Dragonflight this last weekend from Friday till Sunday.

Friday started out slow with me going to work. But after work is what I was looking foward to.

Torgoth's Tower 1 (Hero System)
The game started at 7pm with some handouts and blank characters. I was not sure how this was going to work. We were walked thru the creation process, which was easy.

With the Big Book Of All Shtickiness (a reference for character advancement) we picked out our character's race. The standard stuff was a available, but monster races were also available to pick (but only one of the monster type could be used). I wanted to try a monster, quickly chose a Ogre (high strength, but hard to hit with). At this time the game was started in a armor/weapon room with no memory of who they were. There were 3 to 4 tables going on at one time with different GMs, running the group in different locations in the tower. If a player left the area or died he/she would pick up and head over to the other table. As the night went on our character got some of their memory back and progressed in level (which we got to choose Big Book). My Ogre chose to become a Specialist (a Fighter) to get a better to hit roll. With the next advancement I chose Powerhouse (a Wild Fighter) to get the Massive Bludgeon power (does knockback damage to my attack). Durring this time we had two main missions that we were able to win at. The night ended on our group stuck on a puzzle waiting for part 2 the next day.

Next came sleep. A full day at work and and over 4 hours of gaming I knew I would not last a midnight game. There games that sounded good, a GURPS (would like to try it sometime) and Call of Cthulhu (not a game you want to nod off in). Next time I will take that Friday off and rest, so I will be ready for a midnight game.

Next came Saturday, a full day of games.

ReVolver (modified Hero System)
The first game of the day. One part acting (with basic info on the character, making it up as you go) and one part roll playing with stated characters. Good story, my first time playing in a game that used music in it. It sounded good. The game ended basicly on time and with the missing completed. Prizes were randomly given out, I got a Dusty Green/Copper set of 7 dice with the d10 missing. Free stuff is good, I have other d10s I can use.

Torgoth's Tower 2 (Hero System)
The game continued from last night. My Orge advanced two more time, next came Blademaster. My weapon of choice was a Great Club. I got the ok use club instead of a blade, basically renaming it Weaponmaster. The two powers my Orge gained was Sharpen Weapon (adding Armor-Piercing to my club), the second power was Rapid Attack (like the name says, get to attact up to 3 time, depending on the roll). The last upgrade was to Lieutenant (which I used to increase a few stats). The final battle (for our group) came around with a bunch of undead and creatures atacking. We had a plan to get this gold throne cover from a dragon and bash it into pulp. It did look like we were going to attack it, but one of the other players talked to it and made a trade. With a few good hits the item was dead and the main bad guy had a new problem. The main bad guy had his own problem fighting the other 2/3 of the other player and loosing. Time was not on our side, we had gone past the game cut off. We meet almost all of the game goals, Torgoth (the bad guy) would have been take down by on of the player, but fast foward to the end due to time.

Save the porn queens! (Pax Draconis System)
The game was basically a rescue mission. The GM overlooked bringing PreGens so we got make the character. It was easy, but went a little slow with one book and did take away from game time. This is a scifi system and looks to have some good background and history with it. The battle system is different from others I have played it. The battle was towards the end of the game and was a little rushed due to the time for the session comming to a close. The game was fun, for something I have not played. We did rescue the porn stars and got off the planet.

There were a few other games going on at the same time I would liked to play in, but I wanted to try something new.

Hot Springs of Horrors (BESM "Slayers")
I have seen the game books before and was used for anime style game. I thought I would try this out. I know of the Slayers series and seen maybe one episode awhile back. There was a total of three players and the GM. There was a 15 min discussion of the Slayers series (which jumped to different eps and sequels), where I just grinned and nodded. They geeked out. The two other player played the two main lead character and when the game started, they attacked each other (which might be something the character might do). I felt like getting up and head home for the night, but I held up and played on. The second half of the game was a little better and we got to the end of the game about 3am (Sunday). If I play this game again I will play a anime series I know better.

I went home for a few hours of sleep for the 9am game of 7th Sea.

Escape! (7th Sea, d6 ver)
Good turn out on this game, we had 5 player. Everyone had played the game before, except Bob (friend form my Hero game group). PreGens were picked and the game was reviewed. We started on a ship fleeing from a larger ship. We lost them and headed into port. It had been awhile sence I had played the game, it was fun (like seeing a old friend). Some prizes were given out, Bob got voted for best player for the game and picked up a set of dice. The other two item were diced off, I got a Hulk Jiggle Head Pen.

That it for the games I played in. I picked up a Dragonflight Con shirt and preregistered for next years con for $25.00 and also preregistered for ConQuest North West that will be in the same hotel in February 16th thru 19th (Presidents Day Weekend) for $26.00.

On a side note, a few flyers from Dragon's Landing Inn Podcast were left around in a few places at the convention and the "My Other Shirt is Elven Chain +5" shirt from DLI was worn all day Saturday.

Check out my camera phone pictures from Dragonflight 2006.

Mix Master

Check out from Barenaked Ladies:

For the first time in Barenaked Ladies history we are making available for download multitracks of our songs. May we introduce “Easy”, “Wind It Up”, “Bank Job” and “Rule the World With Love” off our upcoming album Barenaked Ladies Are Me. It is our hope that you will remix, re-create, re-edit, re-configure, and realize what you will with these parts in coming up with your own versions. All tracks here are 16 bit 44.1kHz WAV files ready for re-mixing. Cost for all tracks of each song is $2.49.

Check out the remix under each of the titles, then click on LISTEN.

Videos on YouTube

OK Go - Here It Goes Again - good use of treadmills.

Barenaked Lades - Easy - from BNL's upcoming album "Barenaked Ladies Are Me"

Fiona Apple - Paper Bag

What was wrong with my car.

I thought the felt a little funny, so I took them in to the Shell station near work. The breakes were fine, but it was found that the "power rack and pinion steering gear were completely shot making steering extremely unsafe." There was a fair amout of play with the steering. The proble is fixed and $585.36 has been spent. It is safe to drive now.

The game last week.

I am a little behind on these notes, this is from about 3 weeks ago.

The prev game left off with Vaden and Darbor on the run from 3 human armored horse men. We were able to get away, but going toward the human group was group of orc and goblins. (Note: the human were the bad guys and the orc & goblins are the good guys.) We turned around and started to head back, Our numbers have increased. Yea! Vaden and Darbor game up behind the orc and goblins, they attacked the knights. Darbor atempted to get a attack the a knight, but did not get a good chance (dang those fast horse). Vaden stayed off to side hiding and being stelthy.
I tried for a head shot on one of the knights, but I missed and hit a orc in the stomach (ouch). The next shot his the knight in the head and he goes down. Next, a different knight come in range, I fire again and land the head shot I was aiming for. Another knight goes down. The third knight is not in range, so I put another shot into the first knight, just to be sure he is not playing dead.
Vaden next goes towards the third knight, to get a shot of him. Durring this time the orc and goblins attact the knight and try to pull him off the horse. Wanting to help, Vaden think to try something new. Vaden activates the "Tought Man" power (which also ups his mass to 400kg) and does a Cannon Ball at this knight. Vaden hits him and knock him down, pinning his legs. The others pin his arms down. We asked if he wanted to surrender, he decline the offer. So he was killed.

Learned that day: Again, surprise is good and a arrow to the head with a quick death is great.

I got the idea of the Cannon Ball move from the X-Men, with Wolverine and Colossus's Fastball Special. Just think about a 400kg item/thing comming strait for you. Ouch, that must hurt.

New prohibited items for carry-on baggage.

Due to enhanced security measures liquids, gels, lotions and other items of similar consistency will not be permitted in carry-on baggage. These types of items must be packed in your checked baggage.

Additionally, liquids, gels and lotions purchased beyond the checkpoint but must be disposed of before boarding the aircraft.

Check out the full info HERE.

On a side note it also says:

We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.

Little Bunny Foofoo

Chuck and Lonnie (from Dragon's Landing Inn Podcast) got arrested and thrown in a Klingon jail (at Gen Con 06). As a penance, they had to sing Little Bunny Foofoo.

Check out the video at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7YbTJDqSc

and check out the words if want.

Wacky news

Russian woman Alyona Gabitova is suing weather forecasters for ruining her holiday with incorrect predictions. (WENN)

Neal's Family

I got this email from my friend on August 9th and pictures today. Its a BOY!

Hi guys!

I am proud to announce the arrival of Maxwell Murphy Kahle!!! He was born this afternoon at 2:28 weighing in at 7lbs 5oz and 21 inches long. Both little Max and Mom are doing great and all of us are looking forward to a good night's sleep! 21 hours from the first set of regular contractions to final delivery.... Lotsa fun! ;^)

--Neal

Fantasy Hero Game: A sanity check and your throughts.

I got this email from my gamemaster on our thoughts on the game so far.

Player's Thoughts:

Just wanted to get some feedback from you two on several things. Sort of a pick-your-brain type of thing. The following are not in any sort of order, just how they came out of my brain:

1. (Most important to me) Are you having fun?
a. What do you like?
b. What do you hate?
c. Is there something that can be added, removed, or done differently to make the game more fun for you?

2. Plot hooks. The way I have been running it right now is pretty controlling of where you go and what happens. After the next 'chapter' or two, it should open up some.
a. What things that have happened, or have heard about, in thegame did you want to explore in greater detail?
b. Any sort of side plots would you like to see in exploring something about or for your character.

3. Game mechanics. Rules that we are using in the game.
a. Any rules that you read about (especially the optional ones) that you want me to include?
b. Anything in the rules that do not make sense to you? Or that you think that they is a different interpretation?
c. Anything that you think is just plain dumb?

4. Did you have any other thoughts or comments?

A Virtual Keyboard.

I though this is cool when I saw this on CSI:Miami a few month back.

Check out post I found HERE.

The Amazing Screw on Head

In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian horror and steampunk adventure, President Abraham Lincoln's top spy is a bodyless head known only as Screw-On Head

Check it out HERE.

The game last week.

Could also subtitled, "A Good Knight".

Our group of two started out at the depo, after a few days of resting. It was decided to take it easy and cover our tracks and with a great roll of 3 (on 3 d3 is a roll you want to make), our group was able go at normal speed and still be quiet. We even came across a fully armored knight and war horse. Vaden's plan was to sneek up on the horse and smack it with my War Club with my Tough Man power active (+10 STR and +2 PD/ED) and have horse fall and trap the rider. I tried to sneek up on the horse, but it was aware of my presence. I changed targets to the knight. With a loud ring when the armor was hit in the right shoulder, the knight fell to the ground. With a thud when the rider hit the ground, the horse rears up and attacks Vaden, dazing him. While Vaden dodged the next attact, Darbor came up to the fallen knight and finished him off. With two good hits to the horse, the horse knocked Vaden out (with a lot of STUN damage, 40 over his base STUN). Darbor was able to finish off with a good hit roll (apparently Vaden wore the horse for a easy finish).

With some found help, Vaden was taken back to the depo, when awoke a few hours later.

Learned that day: surprise is good and two time the STUN damage is great.

Dragon's Landing Inn Post

Kodakgallery.com

My problem with this sight is that what you upload is not what you get. You get to view the pictures online, which is good, but if you want the picture to be printed out or take to the local drug store to print it out, you get a 448 x 298 pix picture. With this quality the best you can get is a wallet photo, unless you want to order the picture online. One more thing that has come to mind is that to view the pictures you have to create a login and get spam from Kodak. Use Flickr. That my 2 cents on this.

7th Son: Book One - Descent

A great Podcast Novel by J.C. Hutchins that I started this week. Its been mentioned on a few podcasts and blogs. Give it a try its free to download!

The Premise
7th Son, Book One: Descent is the story of seven strangers who have been brought together after the recent assassination of the U.S. president. These seven men quickly discover they have one disturbing thing in common: They all appear to be the same man, with the same name ... and the same childhood memories.

Unwitting participants in a human cloning experiment, these "John Michael Smiths" have been gathered by their creators for one reason -- to catch the man who murdered the president.

Their target? The man they were cloned from; the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha.

Web
Podobooks.com

The game last week.

The following week in gamming with our HERO game.

This game was a long one, dealing with a two (us) on three (them) battle. We were surprised by two swordmen which rushed up and while the archer took some pop shot at Darbor character. My character, Vaden was able to knock out one of the swordmen, leaving it a little more even. Vaden rushed the archer knocking him down and sent his bow flying. Attacked and missed the archer. He get ups and tried to dodge Vaden's attack, but got smashed in the head by his club. Durring this time the swordman Vaden had knocked down had recovered and was no ganging up on Darbor. Vaden rushed over and knocked down the same one down again. With one down, we attacked the third swordman, not doing too much damage due to armor. Vaden next noticed that the knocked down swordman was playing possum and recovering from the stun damage. Vaden attacked the prone swordman and was able to kill him. And then there was one. At this point Darbor was not doing so good, down to 2 Body (having taken a few arrow hits), while Vaden having taken only a few point of Body damage. At this point the last swordman got a great hit and almost killed Vaden (took a lot of Stun, was taken down to 2 Body and got a deep gash on his right thigh). The swordman made a run for it, fleeing the battle. With our character damaged and needing to rest, we headed away from the battle area. It looks like our characters are being pursued and Vaden needs some first aid on the gash or he will pass out.

This where the game ended for the night. At this time something poped into my head. "Figher needs food badly."

If I could change what I did durring the battle I would change:
1. If I knock someone down, make sure they are dead (do not want them pop up again and attacking).
2. With Vaden higher speed, he could have rushed up to the archer sooner and killed him sooner.
3. Do something other than just attack, do some Combat Maneuvers.

Also post this at the Dragon's Landing Inn.

Drive by cell phone call.

On Friday, some time after work. As I pulled into the mall parking lot I got a call on my cell phone. It was Chris, unknown to me at the time, I just passed him as I pulled into the mall. He just finished seeing Superman Returns.

It was like, "I just passed you as you drove in." "You did? I did not see you." He said "I know what you're going to see." No thats tommorow. I just driving to Circuit City to pick something up."

The age of Cell phones. Try looking around. Most people have a cell phone these days.

Two short videos to watch.

This is hilarious! It's from a talent show at a college in Massachusetts. Try to watch the whole 5 minutes (especially when Mario hits the star).

"Super Mario Bros." -- live!

Also check out this video, the name says it all.

Best home made lightsaber duel ever!

What some friends said:

"That was great. Really high quality effects." -Chad

"Heath...that is awesome!!! I wish I could make vidoes like that!! sort of reminds me of you grabbing swords!!!" -Luke

"That's awesome! It's better than the last three Star Wars movies combined! Better action scenes and no cheesy dialog ;^)
That Super Mario brothers skit was hilarious as well. It's good to see the internet finally living up to its potential." -Neal

No game today.

One problem with a small group (one GM and two player), is that if one player gets sick, the game get canceled. As it was for tonight.

My podcast shirt.

To support one of my podcasts, the Dragon's Landing the following shirt was purchased from CafePress. I only had one beef about the product. The Ash Grey T-Shirt that I purchased does not show the picture very well. The grey box around the "elven chain +5" blends into the grey of the and does not show exactly as pictured here.